Hello,
I have a customized font, it is not an open type font, and there are built in ligatures in this postscript font. How do I activate the ligatures in photoshop. For Example..I have a ligature built into the font for ff, but when I type those two letters, I just get the separated ones, not the ligature. how can you activate built in ligatures in a postscript font?
thanks so much..
babs

You can't. Photoshop does not have that kind of typographic control as InDesign does. Photoshop will not do the font substitution automatically for you.

You should, however, be able to type each ligature glyph individually if you know the key combination to access it, rather than the two glyphs for the letter pair.

If you need this kind of typographic control, you should definitely not be using Photoshop to set your text. Photoshop is an image editing application, not a page layout program.

Or try setting the type in a ligature-aware program (InDesign, Illustrator) and pasting into Photoshop.

Yep, that should work, Doug.

If the typeface defines the ligatures, Photoshop should use them automatically.

But it depends on the ligature tables in the font.

If Photoshop can recognize the ligature tables in the font, corresponding Opentype->Ligature menu will be enabled in the character palette flyout menu. If the menu is enabled, you can select the text and choose the ligature menu to enable those ligatures. Font doesn't need to be shown as open type font in the font menu to use this feature.

-Vinod

That's good to know Vinod.

It never occurred to me to look there.

Yes. OP specified a PostScript font, however.

PostScript fonts could specify ligatures, and I know we used to use them automatically. But Vinod knows the current type code a lot better than I do.

Great to see you back around here, and I do not remember ever "meeting" Vinod here... so... Welcome, and thanks for sharing!!!